Tarantino Defends Epithet-Heavy 'Django Unchained'
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BY CHRISTIAN BRYANT
Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino’s latest movie “Django Unchained” — an n-bomb-heavy, spaghetti western — has stirred-up a whole cauldron of controversy. Now, Tarantino is defending the language within the film.
Speaking to MTV, Tarantino said he found claims that he overused the n-word in his film ridiculous.
“No one can actually say with a straight face that we used the word more than it was used in 1858, in Mississippi... I don’t lie when it comes to my characters and the stories I tell.”
In a separate interview, Tarantino spoke to The Root’s Henry Louis Gates, Jr., saying, “if you're going to make a movie about slavery and are taking a 21st-century viewer and putting them in that time period, you're going to hear some things that are going to be ugly... That's just part and parcel of dealing truthfully with this story...”
Maybe one of the most publicized voices of disdain came from filmmaker Spike Lee, who posted this tweet days before the Christmas release of “Django Unchained.”
That was followed by an interview in which he said he doesn’t plan on seeing the film.
“All I’m going to say is that it would be disrespectful to my ancestors.”
This is a similar refrain for Lee who criticized Tarantino in 1997 for his film “Jackie Brown.” The n-word was used in that movie 37 times.
So, exactly how many times is too many?
Well, writers at TMZ counted 110 dropped n-bombs, nearly triple the amount used in “Jackie Brown.”
Despite negative critiques of language and the use of gratuitous violence, some have found value in the cultural narrative of Tarantino’s “Django Unchained.”
A writer for CNN said, “At a time when so many of our movies aspire to be colorblind... ‘Django Unchained’ dares to confront racism as a potent force and a moving target, discovering horror and also grotesque comedy in the niceties of Southern etiquette.”
In addition, RottenTomatoes gave the movie an 89-percent ranking on its movie critic-approved “Tomatometer”...
And according to Hollywood.com, numbers show “Django Unchained” beat out Les Miserables in terms of weekend box office estimates.
As for Tarantino’s upcoming projects, Digital Spy says he plans on making a third alt-history movie in which black soldiers go AWOL in WWII, during the invasion of Normandy.
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